Abstract
BACKGROUND: The ageing of people with intellectual disability, accompanied with consequences like dementia, challenges intellectual disability-care staff and creates a need for supporting methods, with Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) as a promising possibility. This study examined the effect of DCM on the quality of life of older people with intellectual disability.
METHODS: We performed a quasi-experimental study in 23 group homes for older people with intellectual disability in the Netherlands, comparing DCM (n = 113) with care-as-usual (CAU; n = 111). Using three measures, we assessed the staff-reported quality of life of older people with intellectual disability.
RESULTS: DCM achieved no significantly better or worse quality of life than CAU. Effect sizes varied from 0.01 to -0.22. Adjustments for covariates and restriction of analyses to people with dementia yielded similar results.
CONCLUSION: The finding that DCM does not increase quality of life of older people with intellectual disability contradicts previous findings and deserves further study.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 849-860 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul-2019 |
Keywords
- dementia
- DCM
- effect
- intellectual disability
- person-centred care
- quality of life
- DOWN-SYNDROME
- ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE
- LEARNING-DISABILITY
- SUPPORTING PEOPLE
- ADULTS
- EXPERIENCES
- BEHAVIOR
- SATISFACTION
- SYMPTOMS
- WORKING